Fashion brand Balenciaga has created a limited-edition bag in collaboration with Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen that it describes as "part bag, part Bluetooth sound system". More about Balenciaga and Bang & Olufsen release Speaker Bag that plays music
Danish architecture studio 3XN and Swiss studio Itten+Brechbühl have unveiled the design for Ecotope, an expansion to the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. More about 3XN and Itten+Brechbühl design mass-timber campus for Swiss university
Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. More about "The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing" says architect Victor Body-Lawson
Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, co-founders of French architectural firm Bruther, gave the 31st Annual Architecture Lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. More about Bruther co-founders speak at the Royal Academy's 2022 annual architecture lecture
New York interior designer Sarita Posada has layered "lived-in" details and rich textures inside the first London store from fashion and lifestyle label Aimé Leon Dore. More about Aimé Leon Dore's London boutique homages modernist architect Adolf Loos
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of recyclable surface materials that mimic the appearance of veined marble and terrazzo is among 11 new products on Dezeen Showroom. More about Stone-effect surfaces by Sustonable among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Promotion: a pavilion wrapped in a ceramic-like "skin" and topped with an undulating wooden roof has been installed in Valencia's town square for World Design Capital Valencia 2022. More about Valencia's World Design Capital 2022 pavilion is an ode to local craft
Researchers from space agency NASA are building a swarm of mobile phone-sized robots to swim through oceans on moons in space in search of extraterrestrial life. More about NASA develops swarm of swimming robots to "look for signs of alien life" in space
Project Dove by Toronto studio Agathom Co. was designed to replicate the feeling of a "cottage in the city", offering a variety of spaces for family life that include a greenhouse. More about Agathom equips "cottage in the city" with angular ceilings and a greenhouse
A mixture of curved, pitched and sawtooth roofs creates different spatial qualities in the classrooms of this school in Deyang, China, designed by Beijing-based studio Trace Architecture Office. More about Trace Architecture Office creates school to be "like a cluster of huts in fairy tales"
For our latest lookbook, we've chosen 10 residential glass extensions that create airy, light-filled and modern additions to homes. More about Ten homes with light-filled glass extensions
Greek architectural studio Kapsimalis Architects has designed a hotel in Fira on the island of Santorini using entirely vegan materials and fittings. More about Kapsimalis Architects converts Santorini home into Ethos Vegan Suites hotel
Traditional designs from Korea, from houses to hairpins, are reworked to create the interiors of this Manhattan restaurant by New York studio AvroKO. More about AvroKO draws on Korean culture for Oiji Mi restaurant in New York
A sinuous facade clad in thin white brickwork defines this house in Sulaymaniyah in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, designed by local practice Zakaa. More about Flowing brick facade creates shaded alcoves for home in Iraqi Kurdistan by Zakaa
In this lookbook, we collect 10 homes from the Dezeen archive that use exposed wooden floorboards to give spaces a homely feel. More about Ten homes with characterful exposed wooden floorboards
This week on Dezeen, RIBA unveiled the 20 homes vying to be named 2022's House of the Year. More about This week we revealed the UK's best homes
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has released designs for a structure in Miami Beach that will be the studio's first residential tower in the United States. More about Kengo Kuma unveils first US residential tower
Production studio Villa Eugénie created a replica of Christian Dior's childhood home and a garden with 19,000 flowers for Dior's Spring Summer 2023 menswear show. More about Villa Eugénie places two replica villas in flower meadow for Dior menswear show
Dezeen School Shows: a tower that accommodates a local market and a community centre that tackles gentrification in its surrounding area are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Ravensbourne University London. More about Ravensbourne University London spotlights 10 architecture projects
Promotion: last month at Design Miami/Basel 2022, panelists at Therme Art's Wellbeing Culture Forum discussed how art, architecture and technology can combine to support mental and physical wellbeing. More about Artists can use technology to create human connection say Therme Art panelists